Christopher Waltham wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > >> Christopher Waltham wrote: >>> Hi Prabhat, >>> >>> On Nov 14, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Prabhat Ranjan Pradhan wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Chris and all, >>>> >>>> I too struggled for the same problem for almost 4 months. I googled >>>> several times to find any solution. >>>> >>>> At last I discovered a link Posted by Pieter de Rijk >>>> <http://blog.adslweb.net/serendipity/authors/1-Pieter-de-Rijk> . I >>>> must say thanks to this gentleman who did a splendid job to >>>> pinpoint the error. >>>> >>>> >>>> getting hint from this link what I did is: >>>> >>>> 1. disabled SELinux >>>> 2. created a user (and default group) fedora-ds >>>> 3. installed fedora-ds using yum. >>>> 4. changed the ownership of /var/run/dirsrv to fedora-ds >>>> # chwon -R fedora-ds:fedora-ds /var/run/dirsrv >>>> 5. started installation with setup-ds-admin.pl. >>>> 6. entered fedora-ds as user and group name when prompted by the >>>> installer.. >>>> 7. Hurray!!! my installation was successfull. >>>> >>>> I had repeated this procedure several times on vmware virtual >>>> machines runing fedora9 and fedora8. >>> >>> Thanks for the note! I'm using VMware ESX so I'm taking snapshots to >>> make troubleshooting easier. >>> >>> I didn't realize SELinux was still enabled, so I disabled it. Then I >>> followed the rest of your instructions, but I still had problems: >>> >>> Are you ready to set up your servers? [yes]: Creating directory >>> server . . . >>> Your new DS instance 'ldap' was successfully created. >>> Creating the configuration directory server . . . >>> The suffix 'o=NetscapeRoot' already exists. Config entry DN >>> 'cn="o=NetscapeRoot",cn=mapping tree,cn=config'. >>> >>> That's using fedora-ds as both user and group. Curiously, if I do a >>> chmod/chown and set /var/run/dirsrv to to nobody:nobody (and then >>> choose the "nobody" user in setup-ds-admin.pl), I get exactly the >>> same problem... >> This looks like a different problem. This is what usually happens if >> you run setup again without having first cleaned up everything from >> the prior run. One problem with setup-ds-admin.pl is that you cannot >> simply run it again - it will detect the previous configuration >> (however broken it may be). > > That's what I thought -- and can't understand. :) This is a fresh > install of RHEL; I did a find / -name dirsrv and it came up with nada. > Zero. Zilch! I'm not sure what else to look for? No dirsrv directories at all? There should be some - try rpm -V fedora-ds-base - if that has problems, try yum reinstall fedora-ds-base finally, try setup-ds-admin.pl -ddd to generate debug output - log file is in /tmp > > > Chris > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20081114/d1723cf7/attachment.bin
